The other night, apparently a large section of the internet was unable
to access Achaea for a time. As a result, some people whose characters
were still logged in lost a lot of experience as they died while
bashing. While there's pretty much no way to stop yourself dying from
bashing if you go linkdead, you certainly CAN limit your losses, by
setting your TIMEOUT to something sensible. If you have a 100 minute
timeout, it means you're willing to sit there, dead, for 100 minutes,
losing xp the whole time, before you are automatically logged out.

Penned by my hand on the 14th of Daedalan, in the year 307 AF.